It has been difficult to start up again in the sense that up requires significantly more exertion than the "be here now" so we went the other way, to the coast, which did require quite a bit of energy output but once you are there
Yes.
The girls were enthralled, as were we, for looooong stretches of time watching the waves crash and the seagulls riding the wind, searching for treasures of seaweed and stones, shells and agates and the frothy foam so stiff and delicate.
We made it to the aquarium! Sahara ran to the shark tank and begged for the sharks to clamp their jaws around a smaller fish. Lydia and I sat on the ground and were mesmerized by the flourescent jellyfish pulsing their way around and around and around. Sahara fed the abalone some seaweed and the anenomes stuck to our fingertips. We must return in a few years when Lydia is a bit older. Perhaps we'll do one of their sleepovers.
